The Harvard Salient Podcast

No. 12 - Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin: The Public Culture Project

Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher on faculty in Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative [https://www.humannetworkinitiative.com/], and is a Faculty Member at the HMS Center for Bioethics [https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/]. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita [https://www.capita.org/], co-directs the Trust and Belonging Initiative [https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/trust-and-belonging] at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, and serves on the ethics committee at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His philosophical work examines the connections between modes of intersubjectivity, community, and cognitive flourishing, and he has a book on belonging and world-making forthcoming from Yale University Press. He advises elected officials at the federal and state level, along with leaders of for-profit and non-profit enterprises, on issues of belonging, culture, and flourishing. Dr. Corbin is spearheading Harvard’s Public Culture Project. The full transcript of this interview can be found here [https://www.harvardsalient.com/p/reviving-public-culture]. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.harvardsalient.com [https://www.harvardsalient.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

No. 11 - Dr. Christine Rosen: American Enterprise Institute

Dr. Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, technology and culture, and feminism. She is a columnist for Commentary magazine and one of the cohosts of The Commentary Magazine Podcast. She is also a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a senior editor in an advisory position at The New Atlantis. Dr. Rosen has a PhD in history, with a major in American intellectual history, from Emory University, and a BA in history from the University of South Florida. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.harvardsalient.com [https://www.harvardsalient.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

No. 10 - Oren Cass: Chief Economist at American Compass

Oren Cass is the founder and executive director of American Compass, a Financial Times contributing editor, and the author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of Volume 125 of the Harvard Law Review. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.harvardsalient.com [https://www.harvardsalient.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

#9 - Dr. Carol Swain: Exposing Plagiarism in Higher Education

Follow Dr. Swain on X: https://x.com/carolmswain [https://x.com/carolmswain]Follow Dr. Swain on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcarolmswain/# [https://www.instagram.com/drcarolmswain/#]Grab a copy of Dr. Swain’s book, The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, & the Death of Academic Integrity [https://www.amazon.com/Gay-Affair-Plagiarism-Academic-Integrity/dp/173741984X] on Amazon or wherever you get your books. About Dr. Carol Swain Born into abject poverty in rural southwest Virginia, Dr. Carol Swain, a high school dropout, went on to earn five degrees. Holding a Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.S.L. from Yale, she also earned early tenure at Princeton and full professorship at Vanderbilt where she was a professor of political science and a professor of law. In addition to three Presidential appointments, Carol is a former Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation who has also served on the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 1776 Commission. Dr. Swain is an award-winning political scientist, cited three times by the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the author or editor of 11 published books including the bestseller, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House [https://www.logosbooksonline.com/store/p4952/Black_Eye_for_America.html]and the timely Countercultural Living: What Jesus Has to Say About Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism [https://www.amazon.com/Countercultural-Living-Marriage-Gender-Materialism/dp/1949921832/]. Ms. Swain is an expert on critical race theory, American politics, and race relations with television appearances that include BBC Radio and TV, CSPAN, ABC’s Headline News, CNN, Fox News, Newsmax and more. In addition, she has published opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Epoch Times, The Financial Times and USA Today. Show Notes 00:00 Introduction 2:01 Writing The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, & the Death of Academic Integrity 8:51 Larger Trend of Declining Academic Integrity 12:17 What Is “Plagiaritis” and How Widespread Is It? 20:33 How Could So Much Plagiarism Go Unnoticed? 22:21 Being Cancelled is a Badge of Honor 25:43 Free Speech on Campus 32:10 A Path Forward This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.harvardsalient.com [https://www.harvardsalient.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

#8 - Boris Houenou: Former Advisor to Beninese Presidential Candidate

Boris Houenou recently graduated from Harvard Kennedy School, where he studied public administration. Before arriving at Harvard, Boris worked for Viasat, a space and military satellite company, and taught economics at Washington State University. At the age of 26, he served as an advisor to the Beninese presidential candidate Adrien Houngbédji. Boris has a PhD in Economics from Washington State University. Note: This episode was filmed in May, shortly before Houenou graduated. 00:00 Introduction 02:06 Navigating Harvard 11:06 From Silicon Valley to Harvard and Beyond 14: 55 Political Involvement in Benin 29:49 Exploring the Complexities of Voting Technology and Security 32:10 The Impact of Technology on Society and the Importance of Trust 37:54 Cultural Values and Family Dynamics This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.harvardsalient.com [https://www.harvardsalient.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]